Improvement in cabinets for holding and exhibiting engravings



A. K. POTTER. Cabinet for Holding and Exhibiting Engravings.

No. 222.640. Patented Dec. 16.1879.

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N. PETiRS, PHOTO LTHDGRAPHER ASHINGTON D C U NITED STATES PATENT DFFIGE,

ASA K. POTTER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CABINETS FOR HOLDING AND EXHlBlTlNG ENGRAVINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,640, dated December16, 1879; application filed November 14, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ASA K. POTTER, of Providence, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulCabinet for Holding and Exhibiting Engravings, 820.; and I do herebydeclare that the following specification, taken in connectionwith theaccompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same, is a full, clear, andexact description thereof.

The objects of my invention are to provide in a single piece offurniture compartments for holding engravings, photographs, and articlesof like character in a vertical position,

so that any definite one may be conveniently selected and removed.without disturbing the location of the remainder; to secure the saidcompartments to the frame of the cabinet in such a manner that whenclosed their contents will be housed within the cabinet, and when openthe said contents may beconveniently withdrawn; and to furnish such acabi net with a stationary or sliding top, upon which a frame or easelis rigidly or adjustably mounted for exhibiting said engravings, 85c.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents my improved cabinet inperspective with both compartments open, and Fig. 2 shows the same invertical transverse section with one compartment closed.

lower edge to the frame of the cabinet so as to swing outward anddownward, the amount of movement being governed by stops 1). Ifpreferred, however, the compartments may be hinged to the cabinet-frameupon one of the vertical sides, and swing outward in a horizontal plane.

The top 0 may be immovably secured to the frame, but is preferablymounted thereon so as to slide for the purpose of conveniently varyingthe distance from the eye of an engravin g placed upon the frame oreasel D, and also the better to accommodate the sitter.

The frame or easel 1) may be of any preferred design, and may be securedrigidly to the top G, or adjustably mounted thereon and confined in anydesired position by clampscrews.

"A cabinet thus formed is extremely convenient, since a person sittingat it may procure from the compartments any desired engraving withoutthe necessity of raising and. removing others, and may examine a seriesupon the easel without the necessity of changing his position either toprocure or view them.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patcut, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a cabinet having compartments hingedthereto and arranged, as described, to retain their contents in avertical or nearly vertical position, and house said contents within thecabinet when the compartments are closed, a stationary or sliding top,and a frame or easel rigidly or adjustably secured to the top,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

EnsoN SALISBURY J oNns,

WM. H. OADY.

